Reno Divorce History – A Bibliography
compiled by Mella Harmon
Books - General Nonfiction and Miscellaneous Books and Chapters - Pre-1970
A to Z Directory Publishers 1930 A to Z Directory and Guide Book, 1929-1930. Reno Printing Company, Reno.
1933 A to Z Directory and Guide Book, 1932-1933. Reno Printing Company, Reno.
Anonymous 1953 Fun in Reno and the Far West! Publisher unknown.
Barnett, James Harwood 1939 Divorce and the American Divorce Novel, 1858-1937. Reissued 1968. Russell and Russell, New York.
Bartlett, George 1931 Men, Women and Conflict. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, London.
1947 Is Marriage Necessary? Revised edition. Penguin Books, Inc., New York.
Beebe, Lucius 1968 Reno: Specialization and Fun. In Strauss, Anselm L., The American City: A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery. Aldine Publishing Company, Chicago, 431-433.
Bender-Moss Company 1942 Nevada Compiled Laws, Supplement 1931-1941. Bender-Moss Company, San Francisco.
Bixler, W.K. 1964 The Life and Times of Clel Georgetta, a Pictorial Biography. Sierra Publications.
Bolin, James H. 1924 Reno, Nevada, the Holy City of the World. Distributed by Bolin Publishing Co., Reno.
Bond, George W. 1921 Six Months in Reno. Stanley Gibbons, Inc., New York.
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 1949 Reno: The State City. In Rocky Mountain Cities, edited by Ray B. West, Jr. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York.
Curtis, Leslie 1912 Reno Reveries. Chas. E. Weck, Distributing Agent, Reno.
1924 Reno Reveries. Armanko Stationery Co., Reno.
David, W. M. 1928 Ramblings through the Pines and Sage: A Series of One Day Tours out of Reno. W. M. David for Nevada State Automobile Association.
De Beauvoir, Simone 1952 America Day by Day. Translated by Patrick Dudley [pseudonym]. G. Duckworth, London.
DeQuille, Dan 1876 Comstock’s Matrimonial Venture. Chapter IX in The History of the Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World- renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada. American Pub. Co. New York.
Gilbert, Tom 1927 Reno! It Won’t be Long Now. Gilbert and Shapiro, Reno.
Graphic Arts Corporation 1931 The Reno Divorce Racket. Graphic Arts Corporation, Minneapolis
Gerould, Katherine Fullerton 1925 The Aristocratic West. Harpers, New York.
Harding, Ulla Earl 1940 Roads to Reno. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids.
Haussamen, Florence and Mary Anne Guitar 1960 The Divorce Handbook. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York.
Johnsen, Julia E. 1925 Selected Articles on Marriage and Divorce. H. W. Wilson, New York.
Lesure, Thomas B. 1958 The Best in the West. Harian Publications, Greenlawn, New York.
Lewis, James 1948 Doorway to Good Living: Selected Places. Lewis Publicity Service, Beverly Hills.
Lewis, Oscar 1953 Sagebrush Casinos: The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada. Doubleday and Company, Inc., New York.
Lillard, Richard G. 1942 Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Miller, Max 1941 Reno. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York.
Moore, Boyd 1950 Nevadans and Nevada. H. S. Crocker Company, Inc., San Francisco.
Negro Motorist green Book, The 1951 The Negro Motorist Green Book. Railroad Edition. Victor H. green and Company, New York.
Ness, John F. 1930 Reno: The Recreational Center of America. Lunsford’s Reno Printing Company, Reno.
O’Neill, William L. 1967 Divorce in the Progressive Era. Yale University Press, New York.
Ostrander, Gilman M. 1966 Nevada, The Great Rotten Borough: 1859-1964. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Priest, D.W. 1947 Digest of Nevada Divorce: 1864-1946. Published by the author.
Reno Chamber of Commerce 1930 Reno, Land of Charm. Reno Chamber of Commerce, Reno
Reno Commercial Club and Business Men’s Association 1910 Facts, Figures and Future of Reno, Nevada (Reno, the Cameo City). Reno Commercial Club, Reno.
Riccardi and Aguilar 1932 Compiled Divorce Laws of the State of Sonora, Passed by the Congress of April 22, 1932. Riccardi and Aguilar, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. (in NC1253/15/2-16/6 (Box 45, Folder 16/3)
Ruymann, William G. 1949 Nevada Divorce Manual. Nevada Publications, Las Vegas.
Sanchez, Thomas 1973 Rabbit Boss. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Schader, Larry 1954 Reno Round the Clock: The True Story of America’s Gambling Mecca. Exposition Press, New York.
Siggers, Philip 1934 The Truth about Reno, A Guide Book to Reno, Nevada and the Surrounding Country Useful to the Prospective Visitor and Newcomer. Private publication by the author, Reno.
Slingsby, Bessemer 1944 Droll Tales of Reno. Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc. Los Angeles.
Stratton, Lilyan 1921 Reno: A Book of Short Stories and Information. Van-Noy Interstate Company, San Francisco.
Teeling, William 1933 American Stew. Herbert Jenkins Limited, London.
Turano, Anthony 1929 A Reno Lawyer Looks at Marriage and Divorce. Little Blue Book No. 1461. Haldeman-Julius Publications, Girard, Kansas.
Walton, Clifford C. 1949 Reno Today: A Pictorial Volume of the State’s Activities. Capitol Publishing Company, Portland.
Webb, William 1924 The Reno Guide. Nevada State Journal Printing, Reno.
Winn, Mary Day 1931 The Macadam Trail: Ten Thousand Miles by Motor Coach. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Woon, Basil 1933 Incredible Land: A Jaunty Baedeker to Hollywood and the Great Southwest. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York.
1967 None of the Comforts of Home—But Oh, Those Cowboys. Federated Features, Inc., Reno.
Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project 1940 Guide to the Silver State. Binford and Morts, Portland.
General Nonfiction and Miscellaneous Books and Chapters – Post 1970
Barber, Alicia M. 2008 Reno’s Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.
Basch, Norma 1999 Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Blake, Nelson Manfred 1977 The Road to Reno: A History of Divorce in the United States. Greenwood Press, Publishers, Westport.
Borne, R.L. 1983 Dude Ranching: A Complete History. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Cypert, Rick 2005 America’s Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart. Susquehanna University Press, Susquehanna, PA.
Datin, Richard C. 1992 Reno: A View of the Past. Private publication, Reno.
Davies, Richard O., editor 1999 The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Degler, Carl N. 1980 At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present. Oxford University Press, New York.
DiFonzo, J. Herbie 1997 Beneath the Fault Line: The Popular and Legal Culture of Divorce in Twentieth- Century America. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.
DuVal, Gary 2002 The Nevada Filmography: Nearly 600 Works Made in the State, 1897 through 2000. McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina.
Elliott, Russell R. 1987 History of Nevada. Second edition, revised. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Fowler, Don D. 1999 Molly Flagg Knudtsen: Rancher, Environmentalist, Educator. In The Maverick Spirit: Building the New Nevada (151-165). Richard O. Davies, editor. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Halem, Lynne Carol 1980 Divorce Reform: Changing Legal and Social Perspectives. Free Press, New York.
Henningsen, Virginia Shaw 2003 Shangri-La. In Footprints 6(2), Spring 2003. Historic Reno Preservation Society, Reno.
Hulse, James 1990 The Nevada Adventure. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Jackson, Nancy J. 1981 Dude Ranches in Nevada. In Nevada Towns and Tales (117-119). Stanley W. Paher, editor. Nevada Publications, Las Vegas.
James, C.L.R. 1996 Special Delivery: the Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939-1948, edited by Anna Grimshaw. Blackwell, Cambridge.
James, Ronald M. 1998 The Roar and the Silence: The History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Jones, Mary Somerville 1987. An Historical Geography of the Changing Divorce Law in the United States. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York.
Kling, Dwayne 2000 The Rise of the Biggest Little City: An Encyclopedic History of Reno Gaming, 1931-1981. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Land, Barbara and Myrick Land 1995 A Short History of Reno. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Laxalt, Robert 1977 Nevada, a History. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Lennig, Arthur 2013 The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington.
Liebling, A.J. 2000 A Reporter at Large, Dateline: Pyramid Lake, Nevada, edited by Elmer Rusco. University of Nevada Press, Reno. (a series of articles published in the New Yorker in 1954, with a contemporary introduction).
May, Elaine Tyler 1980 Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
McCracken, Robert 1997 Dams, Dice, and Divorce: Las Vegas in the 1930s. In Las Vegas: The Great American Playground. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
McGee, William L., and Sandra V. McGee 2004 The Divorce Seekers: A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler. BMC Publications, Tiburon.
Mergen, Bernard 2014 At Pyramid Lake. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Miller, Ruth 1991 Saul Bellow: A Biography of the Imagination. St. Martin’s Press, New York.
Moe, Albert Woods 2001 Nevada’s Golden Age of Gambling. Puget Sound Books.
Moehring, Eugene P. 1995 Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas 1930-1970. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Moore, Sally F. and Barbara G. Myerhoff, editors 1977 Secular Ritual. Van Gorcum, Assen/Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Morris, Sylvia Jukes 1997 Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce. Random House, New York.
Myrick, David F. 1992 Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California. Volume II. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Paher, Stanley W., editor 1981 Nevada Towns & Tales, Volume I-North. Nevada Publications, Las Vegas.
Reid, John B., and Ronald M. James, eds. 2004 Uncovering Nevada’s Past: A Primary Source History of the Silver State. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Riley, Glenda 1991 Divorce: an American Tradition. Oxford University Press, New York.
Ronald, Ann 1989 Reno: Myth, Mystique, or Madness? In East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada (134-148). Wilbur Shepperson, editor. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Ross, John C. 1986 A Guide to the U.S. W.P.A., Nevada State Administrative Records. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Rowley, William 1984 Reno: Hub of Washoe Country. Windsor Publications, Inc. Woodland Hills.
1989 Reno and the Desert of Buried Hopes. In East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada, 119-133. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Scandura, Jani 2008 Reno: The Divorce Factory. In Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, and American Depression. Duke University Press, Durham, NC.
Shepperson, Wilbur S., editor 1987. East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Shepperson, Wilbur S., with Ann Harvey 1992 Mirage-Land. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Shipler, G. 1981 Raucous Political Past. In Nevada Towns and Tales (15-17). Stanley W. Paher, editor. Nevada Publications, Las Vegas.
Skolnick, Jerome H. 1978. House of Cards: The Legalization and Control of Casino Gambling. Little, Brown and Company, Boston.
Summerfield, Mary Winslow 1981 Refuge for Restless Hearts. In Nevada Towns and Tales (113-114). Stanley W. Paher, editor. Nevada Publications, Las Vegas.
Totton, Kathryn Dunn 1998 They Are Doing So To A Liberal Extent Here Now. In Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community (68-94). University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Townley, Carrie M., and Patricia Stewart 1978 S—S Ranch and the Lower Truckee. University of Nevada, Reno.
Turner, Victor 1977 Variations on a Theme of Liminality. Chapter III in Secular Ritual (36-52). Sally F. Moore and Barbara G. Myerhodff, editors. Van Gorcum, Assen/Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Vogliotti, Gabriel R. 1975 The Girls of Nevada. Citadel Press, Secaucus.
Vucanovich, Barbara F., and Patricia D. Cafferata 2005 Barbara F. Vucanovich: From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Watkins, T.H. 1993 The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. Little, Brown and Company, Boston.
Zanjani, Sally Springmeyer 1981 The Unspiked Rail: Memoir of a Nevada Rebel. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Fiction
Bacon, Frank 1920 Lightnin’. Grosset and Dunlap, New York
Baldwin, Faith 1941. 1941 Temporary Address: Reno. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., New York.
Biggers, Earl Derr 1932 Keeper of the Keys. Reprint 1969, Pyramid Books, New York.
Cain, James. M. 1947 Sinful Woman. Reprint 1989, Black Lizard Books, Inc., Berkeley.
1950 Jealous Woman. Reprint 1989, Black Lizard Books, Inc., Berkeley.
Carman, Dorothy Walworth 1932 Reno Fever. Ray Long and Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York.
Clark, Walter Van Tilburg 1945 The City of Trembling Leaves. Reprinted 1991. University of Nevada Press, Reno.
Ford, Leslie 1939 Reno Rendezvous. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc., New York.
Hamlin, John 1931. Whirlpool of Reno. The Dial Press, New York.
Homes, Geoffrey 1946 No Hands on the Clock. Bantam Books, New York.
Hughes, Rupert 1930 No One Man. A.L. Burt, New York.
Johnson, Latifa 1952 Sheila Goes to Reno. Vantage Press, New York.
Lewis, Grace Hegger 1931 Half a Loaf. Horace Liveright, New York.
McCarthy, Mary 1970 The Company She Keeps. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York.
Norden, Marilu 2008 Unbridled: A Tale of a Divorce Ranch. BookSurge Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina.
Parmer, Charles B. 1932 After Divorce? G. Howard Watt, New York.
Rule, Jane 1965 Desert of the Heart. World Publishing Company, Cleveland.
Sims, Marion 1937 Call it Freedom. J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia.
Stern, Jill 1957 Not in Our Stars. David McKay Company, New York.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr. 1929. 1929 Reno. The Macaulay Co., New York.
Government Records and Reports
State of Nevada 1865 Statutes of the State of Nevada Passed at the First Session of the Legislature, 1864-5, 99, 116. State Printing Office, Carson City.
1875 Statutes of the State of Nevada, passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislature, 1875, 63. State Printing Office, Carson City.
1932 Report of the State Board of Health for the Period January 1, 1931 to June 30, 1932, Inclusive. State Printing Office, Carson City.
1934 Report of the State Board of Health for the Period January 1, 1932 to June 30, 1934, Inclusive. State Printing Office, Carson City.
1936 Report of the State Board of Health for the Period January 1, 1934 to June 30, 1936, Inclusive. State Printing Office, Carson City.
1936 Health Laws and Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Health. State Printing Office, Carson City.
1996 Political History of Nevada. State Printing Office, Carson City.
Territory of Nevada 1862 Laws of the Territory of Nevada, Passed at the First Regular Session of the Legislative Assembly, Begun the First Day of October and Ended on the Twenty- ninth Day of November, 1861, at Carson City, 94-99. Valentine and Company, San Francisco.
United States Bureau of the Census 1978 Marriage and Divorce, 1916, 1922-1932/U.S. Department of Commerce. Greenwood Press, Westport.
United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census n.d. [Microfilm] Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Nevada.
1908 Marriage and Divorce, 1887-1906. Bulletin 96. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. (in NC1253/15/2-26/6, Box 45, Folder 16/3).
1922 Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Volume II, Population, p. 1351 United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1922 Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Volume III, Composition and Characteristics of the Population by States, p. 618. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1932 Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Volume III, Part 2, Reports by States, Showing the Composition and Characteristics of the Population for Counties, Cities and Townships and Other Minor Civil Divisions, Montana - Wyoming, pp 128, 141. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1932 Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Volume VI, Families, p. 819. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1943 Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Population, Volume II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 4: Minnesota - New Mexico, p. 750. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1941. 1942 Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, Housing, Volume II, General Characteristics, Part 4: Nebraska - Pennsylvania, pp. 91, 103, 109, 110, 112, 113. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1941 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1941 (Sixty-Third Number). Bureau of the Census Library. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1950 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1950 (Seventy-First Edition). Bureau of the Census Library. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 1929 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1929 (Fifty-First Number). Bureau of the Census Library. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1931 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1931 (Fifty-Third Number). Bureau of the Census Library. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
1933 Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1933 (Fifty-Fifth Number). Bureau of the Census Library. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Washoe County Clerk’s Office var. Microfilm civil court records of divorces, May 1, 1931 through December 31, 1934.
Interviews
• Judy Ainsworth, January 6, 2015. (audio)
• Jean Vandervoort Cullen, October 22, 2014. (audio)
• Barbara Davis, November 19, 2014. (audio)
• Janis Delman, November 6, 2014. (audio)
• Elaine Dodd, June 15, 1997.
• Elaine Tremayne DeGuire, September 27, 1997.
• Helen Handy, May 28, 2003.
• Steven Jonas, November 12, 2014. (audio)
• Phil Jones, October 28, 2014. (audio)
• Roberta McBride, February 6, 2007.
• Marilu Norden, October 28, 2014. (audio)
• Joelie Pehanick, on-going correspondence, 1999-present.
• Marilyn Perkins, July 8, 2003.
• William Pettite, on-going correspondence 2000-present.
• Thorne Pierce, October 23, 2014. (audio)
• Marguerite Purcell, May 28, 2003.
• Elaine Rigsby, December 18, 2014. (audio)
• Anne Tankersley Sturm, October 22, 2014. (audio)
• Sharon Walbridge, July 2, 2003.
• Rodney Reynolds, December 9, 2001. (audio)
• Judy Underwood, November 4, 2014. (audio)
• Barbara Vucanovich, August 6, 2005. (audio)
• Beth Ward, February 6, 2007
Journal Articles – Pre-1970
Arrington, Leonard 1969 The New Deal in the West. A Preliminary Statistical Inquiry. Pacific Historical Review, 38:3(August 1969):311-316.
Beath, Paul Robert 1931 Winchellese. American Speech, 7:1 (October 1931), 44-46.
Bergeson, Rollo 1935 The Divorce Mill Advertises. Law and Contemporary Problems, II(3):348-359.
Business Week 1945 Reno Challenged: Bid of Las Vegas, Nev., for divorce business is viewed as a more formidable threat than the recent Supreme Court decision. Business Week, July 14, 1945, p. 24.
Cavers, David F. 1937 Migratory Divorce. Social Forces, Vol. 16, No. 1:96-107.
Grinberg-Vinaver, Sophie 1949 A Propos of a “Reno Divorce” and its Validity in France. The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 43, No. 3 (July 1949), 542-546.
Hutchinson, Paul 1931 Nevada—A Prostitute State. The Christian Century, 48, December 2, 1931, 1519-1520. Reno’s Divorce Mill. The Christian Century, 48, December 9, 1931, 1557-1559.
Can Reno Be Cured? The Christian Century, 48, December 16, 1931, 1592-1594.
Ingram, Frank W. and G.A. Ballard 1935 The Business of Migratory Divorce in Nevada. Law and Contemporary Problems, II(3):302-308. Duke University Press, Durham.
Peterson, Virgil W. 1949 Gambling. Should it be Legalized? Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), Vol. 40, No. 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1949), 259-329.
Rudman, Norman G. 1954 Estoppel under the Uniform Divorce Recognition Act in California. California Law Review, Vol. 42, Issue 3 (July 1954).
Seidl-Hohenveldern, I. 1955 Austria: Nonrecognition of Reno Divorces. The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 1955), 245-247.
Journal Articles – Post-1970
Dworkin, Dennis 2001. C.L.R. James in Nevada. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 44:2 (Summer 2001):109-132. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Edwards, Jerome 1976 Mary Pickford Divorce. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 19:3 (Fall 1976):185-191. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Frank, Tibor 1991 Double Divorce: The Case of Mariette and John von Neumann. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 34:2 (Summer 1991): 360-363. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Harmon, Mella Rothwell 2001. Bethel AME: The Oldest Surviving African-American Church in Nevada. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 44:3 (Fall 2001):270-284. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Henningson, Virginia Shaw 2003 Shangri-La. Footprints, the newsletter of the Historic Reno Preservation Society 6(2) (Summer 2003):10-11.
Hulse, James W. 1990 Richard Guy Walton. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer 1990.
Vlosky, Denese Ashbaugh, and Pamela A. Monroe 2002 The Effective Dates of No-Fault Divorce Laws in the 50 States. Family Relations, Vol. 51, No. 4, 317-324.
Magazine Articles – Pre-1970
Aikman, Duncan 1931 Again Reno Speeds up the Divorce Mill. The New York Times Magazine, Section V, April 5, 1931.
Albert, Allen D., Jr. 1909 Reno, The Refuge of Restless Hearts. Munsey’s Magazine, Volume XLII, Number 1. October 1909.
Anonymous 1938 Can Divorce Be Successful? Harper’s Magazine, 176:255-262.
Beebe, Lucius 1958 Reno. Holiday, 24:90-92 (November 1958).
1962 The Sincere Sinning of the One Sound State. Saturday Review, 20 October 1962.
Brockliss, Ramona Park 1926 Reno Has a Personality. Sunset Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 3, September 1926.
Clark, Lyman 1932 His Customers Leave Him in Six Weeks. American Druggist, LXXXVI(5):36.
Collier’s 1923 What the Folks are Thinking About—in Reno, Nevada. Collier’s, 71:33 (April 28, 1923).
Deutsch, Albert 1955 The Sorry State of Nevada. Collier’s, 18 March 1955.
Ebony 1950 Nuptial Knot Cut by 500 Negro Wives annually in Divorce City. Ebony Magazine, V(10), August 1950.
Ewing, Paul A. 1928 Nevada Discovered. Sunset Magazine, Vol. 61, No. 2, August 1928, 28-30, 73.literary
Fisher, M. F. K. 1966 The Changeover. New Yorker, 42:43-45 (14 May 1966).
Fortune Magazine 1934 Passion in the Desert. Fortune, IX(4):100-107.
Gerould, Katharine Fullerton 1925 Reno. Harper’s. 1925, 47-59.
Greene, William W. 1922 Reno: Aspects of Nevada’s Hybrid Metropolis—The Transformation of a Frontier Town—How Divorce Industry is Operated—Reno’s Reckless Past. Travel. Vol. 39, No. 3, July 1922.
Griswold, J. B. 1938 Wild West: Nevada—a pot-boiling mixture of a Buffalo Bill show, a swanky New York night club, and a spendthrift Indian maharajah on a spree. American Magazine, 125:14-15 (May 1938).
Halle, Rita S. 1931. Marriage Can Profit From Divorce: The Lesson I Learned at Reno. Good Housekeeping, 94(4)31.
Hays, Arthur Garfield 1931 When is a Divorce not a Divorce? Vanity Fair. August 1931:34.
1965 The Rites of Reno. Holiday, 37:62-67 (June 1965).
Hunt, Morton M. 1967 Help Wanted: Divorce Counselor. The New York Times Magazine, 1 January 1967:14-17.
Jerome, Juilan 1931 Where Bonds are Broken. Vanity Fair. January 1931:43.
Kellogg, Virginia 1937 The Real Reno (from “Cosmopolitan). Literary Digest, Vol. 124, No. 27, November 27, 1937.
Lewis, Grace Hegger 1929 Just What is Reno Like. Scribner’s. January 1929, 35-45.
Liebling, A.J. 1948 Lake of the Cui-ui Eaters. New Yorker, January 1, 8, 15, 22, 1948 1950 Slot Machines and Repose. New Yorker, April 29, 1950 1954 The Mustang Buzzers. New Yorker, 2 parts, April 3 and 10, 1954. Life Magazine 1937 Reno Divorce Myth. Life Magazine, 2(25):34-45, June 21, 1937.
Literary Digest, The 1927 Reno Divorces, 1927 Model. The Literary Digest, 93:13-14 (April 9, 1927).
1930 The Divorce Mill Slackening. The Literary Digest, 107:26 (November 15, 1930).
McCormick, Anne O’Hare 1931 Reno, Child of the Fabulous Frontier. The New York Times Magazine, Section V, November 1, 1931.
Mullett, Mary B. 1930 Mary B. Mullett Tells the Truth about Reno. American Magazine, 110:26-29 (October 1930).
Paine, Swift 1930 As We See it in Reno. North American Review, 229:720-726 (June 1930).
Parkhurst, Genevieve 1929 In Reno—Where They Take the Cure. Pictorial Review. Vol. 30, No. 5, Feb. 1929.
Perry, George Sessions 1952 Reno. Saturday Evening Post, 15 July 1952.
Pringle, Henry F. 1931 Reno the Wicked: The American Capital of Divorce and Gambling. Outlook, 158:395-403 (July 29, 1931).
Prosser, William L. 1938 Divorce, the Reno Method and Others. Forum and Century. C(6):286-291, December 1938.
Reno Nevada Weekly 1910 United we Stand, Divided We Stand It Better. Reno Nevada Weekly: Journal of Society, Music, Drama, Sports, Mining, and Politics. Reno Reveille Publishing Co., Reno.
Reynolds, Quentin 1935 Relax in Reno. Collier’s, 96:20-22 (December 18, 1935).
Robb, Inez 1943 Strange Life of a Maharaja Getting a Reno Divorce. The American Weekly, July 11, 1943. On file, Special Collections Library, University of Nevada, Reno.
1944 Out of This World in Reno: Fantastic Story of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Alimony in the Dizzy Divorce Capitol Where Law and License Never Clash. The American Weekly. Series of ten articles. May through July 1944.
Ryan, Con 1936 The City that Sex Built. True Detective, 39:1 (November 1936).
Saturday Evening Post 1937 Day of a Divorcee. Saturday Evening Post, 210:22-23 (December 11, 1937).
Schwed, Fred, Jr. 1949 Separation Center. Holiday. February 1949.98-105.
Scribner’s 1929 What You Think About it. Scribner’s, 85: Supp. 50-51.
Taylor, Frank J. 1938 Rich Man’s Refuge. Collier’s, 101:14+ (February 19, 1938.
Time Magazine 1962 Nevada: Call Me Mary. Time, 16 March 1962. (Mrs. Rockefeller Divorce)
1969 Article about prostitution in Nevada. June 27, 1969.
Turano, Anthony 1936 Reno the Naughty. American Mercury, 37:183-189 (February 1936).
1965 Last of the Divorce Ranches. Saturday Evening Post, July 17, 1965:30-34.
Wittels, David G. 1950 Perjury Unlimited. Post Reports on Divorce 5. Saturday Evening Post, February 18, 1950:28, 135-138.
Magazine Articles – Post-1970
Clancy, Gwendolyn 1987. In Search of Will James. Nevada Magazine. September/October 1990.
Harpster, Jack 2014 The Strange but True Story of the Nobleman, the Cobbler’s Daughter, and the Scandal over an Early Nevada Divorce. Nevada in the West. Summer 2014.
Horton, Susan 1981 The Six-Week Cure. Nevada Magazine. November/December 1981.
Moody, Eric N. 2001 The Games Begin. Nevada Magazine, March/April 2001:20.
Nevada Magazine 1996 Reno Divorce Days. Nevada Magazine, 56(1):61-64.
Manuscripts and Collections
Bartlett, George Var. Papers. Collection NC1253, Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Bean, Mary Cutlip Var. Mary Cutlip Bean Papers.. Collection No. 95-10. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Bliss, William Var. The Bliss Papers. Collection No. 97-24. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Drackert, Harry and Joan Var. Harry and Joan Drackert Collection. Collection No. 91-39. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Erskine, Graham 1990 Graham Erskine Oral Interview. 1990 21 1.91-39. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Georgetta, Clel Var. Clel Georgetta Papers.
Harmon, Mella Rothwell 1999 National Register Nomination for the Frey Ranch, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. On file at the State Historic Preservation Office, Carson City.
2001 National Register of Historic Places Nomination for Bethel A.M.E. Church, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. On file at State Historic Preservation Office, Carson City.
Luce, Clare Boothe Var. The Clare Boothe Luce Papers. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Marshall, John Albert Var. John Albert Marshall Papers. Collection No. 90-16. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
McCarran, Patrick A. Var. Patrick McCarran Collection, MS/NC13. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Miscellaneous Var. Miscellaneous Nevada and Great Basin Documents. Collection No. 2008-09. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Mishkin, Beatrice 1986 Time of My Life: a Memoir. Privately published by Beatrice Mishkin’s family.
Nevada Historical Society n.d. Manuscript collection of WPA records, MS/NC 278, consisting of 39 boxes. Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Rocha, Guy Louis n.d. Nevada’s Most Peculiar Industry: Brothel prostitution, its Land Use Implications and its Relationship to the Community. Unpublished manuscript.
Rowley, Gladys Belknap Var. Scrapbooks, 1938-1956. Collection No. 84-26. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Rowson, Walter C. Var. Walter C. Rowson Papers. Collection No. 1055. Special Collections Department, University of Nevada Library, Reno.
Thornton, Margaret Bartlett Var. Margaret Bartlett Thornton Papers, c. 1929-1969. Collection No. NC457 (unprocessed). Special Collections Department, University Nevada Library, Reno.
Wheeler, Sessions S. Var. Session S. Wheeler Papers. Collection No. 99-01. Special Collections Department, University Nevada Library, Reno.
Maps
Frazier, C.M. 1935 City of Sparks. Scale 1 inch=200 feet, January 20, 1935. On file at the Reference Department of the Washoe County Public Library, Reno.
Reno Chamber of Commerce 1955 Regional map on the back of a Reno-Sparks Map. No scale. On file at the Reference Department of the Washoe County Public Library, Reno.
Reno, City of, Department of Engineering 1931 City of Reno, Nevada. Scale: 1 inch=600 feet. Drawn January 31, 1930, revised March 31, 1931. City of Reno Department of Engineering, Reno. On file as map 1931-O, at the Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
Sanborn Map Company 1918 Sanborn Insurance Maps of Reno, Nevada, 1918-1948. Sanborn Map Company, Reno. On file at Nevada Historical Society, Reno.
State of Nevada, Department of Highways 1936 State Highway Department’s Official Road Map of the State of Nevada. Scale: 1 inch=20 miles. State of Nevada, Department of Highways, Carson City. On file at the Reference Department of the Washoe County Public Library, Reno.
1964 Property Maps, Washoe County, Nevada. U.S. Interstate 80 construction project. Nevada Department of Highways, Right-of-Way Department. On file at the Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City.
1975 Construction Features, U.S. Interstate 80, Washoe County Nevada. Revised 1975. On file at Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City.
United States Tourist Service n.d. Reno, Nevada City Map and Guide. No scale. Ca. 1935. United States Tourist Service, Portland. On file at the Reference Department of the Washoe County Public Library, Reno.
Motion Pictures
• 1957 Affair in Reno. Directed by R. G. Springsteen. Republic Pictures.
• 1960 The Apartment. Directed by Billy Wilder. The Mirisch Corporation, United Artists.
• 1937 The Awful Truth. Directed by Leo McCarey. Columbia Pictures Corporation.
• 1941 Bedtime Story. Directed by Alexander Hall. B. P. Schulberg Productions, Columbia Pictures.
• 1947 Born to Kill. Directed by Robert Wise. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1944 Bride by Mistake. Directed by Richard Wallace. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1940 Buck Benny Rides Again. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Paramount Pictures.
• 1969 Cactus Flower. Directed by Gene Saks. Frankovich Productions, Columbia Pictures.
• 1939 Charlie Chan in Reno. Directed by Norman Foster. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
• 1941 Dive Bomber. Directed by Michael Curtiz. Warner Brothers.
• 1917 The Divorcee. Directed by William Wolbert. Vitagraph Company of America.
• 1946 Easy to Wed. Directed by Edward Buzzell. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1950 Father of the Bride. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1939 5th Avenue Girl. Directed by Gregory La Cava. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1926 Forbidden Waters. Directed by Alan Hale. Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California.
• 1944 The Heavenly Body. Directed by Alexander Hall. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1940 His Girl Friday. Directed by Howard Hawks. Columbia Pictures Corporation.
• 1951 His Kind of Woman. Directed by John Farrow. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1953 How to Marry a Millionaire. Directed by Jean Negulescu. Twentieth Century- Fox Corporation.
• 1939 In Name Only. Directed by John Cromwell. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Directed by Don Siegel. Walter Wanger Productions.
• 1949 John Loves Mary. Directed by David Butler. Warner Brothers.
• 1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris. Directed by Richard Brooks. Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer.
• 1936 Libeled Lady. Directed by John Conway. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1925 Lightnin’. Directed by John Ford. Fox Film Corporation.
• 1930 Lightnin’. Directed by Henry King. Fox Film Corporation.
• 1944 Maisie Goes to Reno. Directed by Harry Beaumont. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1937 Manhattan Merry-Go-Round. Directed by Charles Reisner. Republic Pictures.
• 1916 The Matrimonial Martyr. Directed by Sherwood MacDonald. Balboa Amusement Producing Company.
• 1934 Merry Wives of Reno. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. Warner Brothers.
• 1944 Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Directed by Preston Sturges. Paramount Pictures.
• 1961 The Misfits. Directed by John Huston. Seven Arts Production/UA.
• 1948 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Directed by H. C. Potter. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1941 No Hands on the Clock. Directed by Frank MacDonald. Paramount Pictures.
• 1931 Night Life in Reno. Directed by Raymond Cannon. Supreme Pictures.
• 1928 On to Reno. Directed by James Cruz. James Cruz Productions.
• 1915 On the Road to Reno. Written by Emmett C. Hall. Lubin Manufacturing Company.
• 1946 One More Tomorrow. Directed by Peter Godfrey. Warner Brothers.
• 1956 The Opposite Sex. Directed by David Miller. Metro-Goldwyn-Miller.
• 1943 The Palm Beach Story. Directed by Preston Sturges. Paramount Pictures.
• 1931 Peach O’Reno. Directed by William Seiter. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1954 Phffft. Directed by Mark Robson. Columbia Pictures Corporation.
• 1940 The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1922 The Primitive Lover. Directed by Sidney Franklin. Constance Talmadge Film Company.
• 1923 Reno. Directed by Rupert Hughes. Goldwyn Pictures Corporation.
• 1930 Reno. Directed by George Crone. Sono-Art Productions.
• 1939 Reno. Directed by John Farrow. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1927 A Reno Divorce. Directed by Ralph Graves. Warner Brothers.
• 1924 Reno or Bust. Directed by Archie Mayo. Christie Film Company.
• 1930 Reno or Bust. Directed by Bryan Foy. The Vitaphone Corporation.
• 1910 A Reno Romance. Directed by Harry Solter. Independent Moving Pictures Corporation of America.
• 1931 The Road to Reno. Directed by Richard Wallace. Paramount Pictures.
• 1938 The Road to Reno. Directed by S. Sylvan Simon. Universal Pictures.
• 1951 Reunion in Reno. Directed by Kurt Neumann. Universal International Pictures.
• 1946 The Second Woman. Directed by James V. Kern. Cardinal Pictures.
• 1964 Send Me No Flowers. Directed by Norman Jewison. Universal Pictures.
• 1950 A Stolen Life. Directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Warner Brothers.
• 1934 Story Conference II. Directed by Roy Mack. The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Brothers.
• 1946 Vacation in Reno. Directed by Leslie Goodwins. RKO Radio Pictures.
• 1921 Wedding Bells. Directed by Chester Withey. Constance Talmadge Film Company.
• 1939 The Women. Directed by George Cukor. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• 1937 Young and Innocent. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Gaumont British Picture Corporation.
• 1937 You’re Only Young Once. Directed by George B. Seitz. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Music
Guthrie, Woody 1949 Philadelphia Lawyer. Words and music by Woody Guthrie. Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc., New York.
Schwartz, Jean, and William Jerome 1910 I’m on my Way to Reno. Vocals by Billy Murray. Jerome H. Remick and Company, New York.
Significant Newspaper Articles – Pre-1970
Anonymous 1930 A Woman Writes from Reno: Notes on the Divorce Racket, by An Ex-Wife. Three-part series. The Chicago Daily News, 19 March, 26 March, and 23 April 1930.
Bromley, John 1969 California Imperils Nevada Divorce Trade. Nevada State Journal, 27 July 1969.
Frames, Peggy 1949 Reno Was Making Divorce News Back in 1909. Nevada State Journal, 9 January 1949.
Gallico, Paul, syndicated series on Reno published in various newspapers 1938 Reno, Nevada, Is the Greatest Show In America, Roving INS Reporter Learns; It Is the City of a Thousand Contrasts. 8 February
Divorcee-To-Be Follows Good Cry with a Drink and Then Steps Out To Find Reno is a City of Gentlemen and Slot Machines. 9 February
Only Visitors Lead High-Pressure and Sizzling Existence That Reno Has To Offer; Natives Are Just Average Folks. 10 February
Reno Divorcees-To-Be May Escape Publicity In Hush-Hush Hideaways Where Gay, Vital and Masculine Cowboys Keep Reporters Out. 11 February
Actual Divorce Hearings in Reno Follow Set Pattern, says Gallico. February 15
Women Who Come to Reno for Divorce Are Generally Indefatigable Talkers. 14 February, 1938
Nevada State Journal var. Miscellaneous classified advertisements and articles on divorce, divorce statistics and records, 1931-1934.
1901 The New Riverside. 19 October 1901.
1936 One Sound State. First National Bank, Reno.
1949 Mrs. Thompson Had Known Reno From Its Beginnings. Obituary of Florence Thompson, daughter of Jane Lake and step-daughter of Myron Lake.
1969. Divorce ‘Overhaul’ Passed by California Legislature. 29 July 1969 (1). McKissick Chided for Comments on Effect of Divorce Law Reform. 29 July 1969 (10).
Reno Evening Gazette var. Miscellaneous classified advertisements and articles on divorce and divorce statistics and records, 1931-1934.
1952 E.H. Beemer, Former County Clerk, Succumbs. Obituary of County Clerk Beemer. 14 August 1952.
1968. Lawyer Traces Nevada’s Role in Divorce Business. 22 April 1968 (8).
Strauss, Michael 1968 Reno Divorcing Itself from Divorce. The New York Times, 12 May 1968, Resorts and Travel section.
Newspaper Articles – Post-1970
Brown, Patricia Leigh 2002 A Push to Preserve Reno’s Landmarks as Divorce Capital. The New York Times, 22 April 2002.
Hart, Heidi 1995 Divorce Depot. Reno: Still Splitsville After all These Years. Reno News and Review, 4 October 1995.
McMillan, Doug 1995 Sin, Controversy Spurred Nevada’s Growth. Reno Gazette Journal, 19 November 1995.
Mullen, Frank X., Jr. 2001 Bulldozed Fate Awaits Motel. Reno Gazette Journal, 9 December 2001:1.
Pehanick, Joelie Fuetsch 2002 Divorce House. Reno Gazette Journal. 21 July 2002.
Vogel, Ed 2002 Area Musicians Want to See State Change its Tune. Las Vegas Review- Journal, Monday, 4 March 2002
Oral Histories
Arley, Charlotte Hunter, 1912-2006. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Blair, Minnie P. 1968 Days Remembered of Folsom and Placerville, California; Banking and Farming in Goldfield, Tonopah, and Fallon, Nevada. Oral History Program. University of Nevada Reno.
Batjer, Cameron M. 2013 An Oral History. Oral History Program, University of Nevada, Reno.
Cahlan, John 1987 Reminiscences of a Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada Newspaperman, University Regent and Public-spirited Citizen. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Crowell, Lucy Davis. 1965 One Hundred Years at Nevada’s Capital. Oral History Program. University of Nevada Reno.
Dickinson, Lawrence A. 1986 Life on the Red Rock Ranch, 1904-1965. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Ginocchio, Andrew 1987 The Ascent of Reno Iron Works. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Guild, Clark J. 1967 Memoirs of Careers with Nevada Bench and Bar. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Leonard, Paul A. 1976 Tales of Northern Nevada—and Other Lies. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Mosconi, Joseph P. 1987 Reflection on Life in Truckee, Verdi and Reno, 1900-1960. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Olsen, Edward A. 1969 My Careers as Journalist in Oregon, Idaho and Nevada; in Nevada Gaming Control; and at the University of Nevada. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Petricciani, Silvio E. 1978 The Evolution of Gaming in Nevada: the Twenties to the Eighties. Oral History Project, University of Nevada, Reno.
Proceedings from the Nevada Newspaper Conference 1990
Reynolds, Rodney J. 1977 A Cold War Politician of Nevada in the Fifties. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Sanford, John 1971 Printer’s Ink in My Blood. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Sayre, Cora Gage 1977 Memories of Smith Valley. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Thornton, Hale Crosby. 1978. A Nevada DAR from New Hampshire
Walsh, Phyllis J. 1973 From Lorgnettes to Lariats: In Loving Recollection of the S Bar S Ranch, Where Work Hardened Our Hands, While Visitors Lightened Our Hearts. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Wilson, Thomas Cave 1982 Reminiscences of a Nevada Advertising Man, 1930-1980, or Half a Century of Very Hot Air, or I Wouldn’t Believe It if I Hadn’t Been There. Oral History Program. University of Nevada, Reno.
Plays
Luce, Clare Boothe 1937 The Women. A Comedy in Three Acts. In The Best Plays of 1936-1937, edited by Burns Mantle. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York.
Smith, Winchell, and Frank Bacon 1918 Lightnin’. Played in the GaietyTheater, Broadway, New York from 26 August 1918 to 27 August 1927.
Theses and Dissertations
Barber, Alicia Marie 2001. Living it Up, Living it Down: Civic Reputation, Tourism and Urban Development in Reno, Nevada. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, Austin.
Harmon, Mella Rothwell 1998 Divorce and Economic Opportunity in Reno, Nevada during the Great Depression. Master’s thesis, University of Nevada, Reno.
Fey, Christine A. 1991 A Preservation Plan for the Lincoln Highway in Nevada. Master’s thesis. University of Nevada, Reno.
Smith, Harold Truman 1972 New Deal Relief Programs in Nevada, 1933 to 1935. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Nevada, Reno.
Streb, Jennifer L. 2004 Minna Citron: A Socio-Historical Study of an Artist’s Feminist Social Realism in the 1930s. Unpublished dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.
Van Doren, Leon H. 1960 Tasker Oddie in Nevada Politics, 1900-1914. Unpublished Master’s thesis. University of Nevada, Reno. (pages 70-75, about 1913 divorce law.)
Watson, Anita J. 1987. Tarnished Silver: Popular Image and Business Reality of Divorce in Nevada, 1900-1939. Master’s thesis, University of Nevada, Reno.
1997 Fading Shame: Divorce Stigma in American Culture, 1882-1939. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nevada, Reno.
Video
Channel 5 Public Broadcasting 1996 The Biggest Little City Remembers. [Divorce segment]. Erik Westby, writer, producer, director. Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Reno.
KNPB Television 1991 “The Reno Cure.” Produced by Rosemary Peacock. Nevada Experience, 203. KNPB, Channel 5 Public Broadcasting, Reno.
Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs 2001. “Going to Reno: Divorce Story.” Exploring Nevada. Produced and directed by Gwen Clancy. Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs, Carson City.